Union Violence and the Hobbs Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 462 ... March 23, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 199 pages |
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Page 72 - extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
Page 86 - It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents — (1) to restrain or coerce (A) employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7...
Page 171 - Interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises. (a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, including the mail with intent to — (1) distribute the proceeds of any unlawful activity; or (2) commit any crime of violence to further any unlawful activity; or (3) otherwise promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate the promotion, management, establishment, or carrying on, of any unlawful activity...
Page 1 - No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such provision...
Page 161 - Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion...
Page 146 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary...
Page 147 - Chairman of the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and from Representative Lawrence Hogan.
Page 114 - The character of what the drivers or owners did and intended to do — pay money to avoid a beating — was not altered by the willingness of the payee to accept as wages for services rendered what he in fact intentionally exacted from the driver or owner as the purchase price of immunity from assault, and what he intended so to exact whether the proffered services were accepted or not. It is no answer to say that the guilt of a defendant Is personal and cannot be made to depend upon the acts and...
Page 182 - Act, which declares it to be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization "to restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights guaranteed in Section 7 (of the Act].
Page 78 - The Court apparently takes the position that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a State. Looked at from the standpoint of the individual who is being prosecuted, this notion is too subtle for me to grasp. If double punishment is what is feared, it hurts no less for two "Sovereigns